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Future Directions for Electric Propulsion Research
Aerospace, 2020 The research challenges for electric propulsion technologies are examined in the context of s-curve development cycles. It is shown that the need for research is driven both by the application as well as relative maturity of the technology.
Ethan Dale +2 more
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Atmosphere, 2020 Even after half a century of development, many phenomena in Hall Effect Thrusters are still not well-understood. While numerical studies are now widely used to study this highly non-linear system, experimental diagnostics are needed to validate their ...
Victor Désangles +8 more
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Advanced laboratory for testing plasma thrusters and Hall thruster measurement campaign
Nukleonika, 2016 Plasma engines are used for space propulsion as an alternative to chemical thrusters. Due to the high exhaust velocity of the propellant, they are more efficient for long-distance interplanetary space missions than their conventional counterparts.
Szelecka Agnieszka
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The water electrolysis Hall effect Thruster
, 2022 This study proposes operating a Hall effect Thruster (HET) on the products of in-situ water electrolysis. Oxygen is supplied to the anode and hydrogen to the cathode to mitigating poisoning. In comparison to other alternative HET propellants water is non-toxic, low cost, highly storable, and allows synergies with chemical propulsion systems.
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation, 2022 Methods based on laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy are widely used for spatially resolved non-intrusive diagnostics of atomic or molecular densities and velocity distributions in plasma applications.
Christoph Eichhorn +6 more
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High Fidelity Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Downscaled Cusped Field Thruster
Aerospace, 2017 The Cusped Field Thruster (CFT) concept has demonstrated significantly improved performance over the Hall Effect Thruster and the Gridded Ion Thruster; however, little is understood about the complexities of the interactions and interdependencies of the ...
Thomas Fahey +2 more
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Spatial evolution characteristics of ion and electron flow for 300 W class low-power Hall thruster
AIP Advances, 2021 The Faraday probe and cylindrical Langmuir probe were used to characterize the downstream ion and electron spatial evolution of a 300 W class low-power Hall thruster.
Xinwei Chen +10 more
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Radial distribution of electrons rotation moment in hall effect and plasma-ion thrusters
Авіаційно-космічна техніка та технологія, 2021 The subject matter of the article is the radial distribution of electrons movement parameters inside electric propulsion thrusters with closed electrons drift.
Zongshuai Guo
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Development of an indirect thrust stand based on a cantilever beam
AIP Advances, 2021 There is a large number of missions that have been or will be launched soon that utilize the electric propulsion (EP), which is considered a key technology for applications in present and future space missions.
H. Zhang, D. T. Li, F. He, X. W. Chen
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PPU for a small, low power and low cost EPS [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The objective of this paper is to present the design of the Power Processing Unit (PPU) of the Microsatellite Electric Propulsion System (MEPS) program currently being developed at Elegant Bread Board (EBB).
Savvas Spiridon +2 more
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